Leptogenys africanus

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Leptogenys africanus Weber, 1942 junior synonym of current valid taxon Leptogenys crustosa Santschi, 1914

Leptogenys (Leptogenys) africanus Weber, 1942b: 47, fig. 8 (w.) SOUTH SUDAN. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “a colony… and strays”). Type-locality: South Sudan (“Anglo-Egyptian Sudan”): Lotti Forest, W slopes of Imatong Mts, 5.viii.1939, no.1452 (N.A. Weber). Type-depository: MCZC.

Status as species: Weber, 1943d: 302.
Junior synonym of Leptogenys crustosa: Bolton, 1975a: 251; Bolton, 1995b: 229.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1975a. A revision of the ant genus Leptogenys Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian region with a review of the Malagasy species. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 31:235-305. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Weber, N. A. 1942b. New doryline, cerapachyine and ponerine ants from the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 44:40-49. PDF
Weber, N. A. 1943d. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93:263-389. PDF

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